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Development after Industrialization: Poor Countries in an Electronically Integrated Global Economy

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) defines globalization as broader and deeper integration,

... the growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide through the increasing volume and variety of cross-border transactions in goods and services and of international capital flows, and also through the more rapid and widespread diffusion of technology.

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Kobrin, S.J. (2000). Development after Industrialization: Poor Countries in an Electronically Integrated Global Economy. In: Hood, N., Young, S. (eds) The Globalization of Multinational Enterprise Activity and Economic Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599161_6

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